After summarizing sighting records of ringed Black-faced Spoonbill in 2011 to 2012 winter (mainly referring to the databases of Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan) by our friend Dr. Kisup Lee in Korea, he gave us some interesting findings. From 2002, there were a total of 134 Black-faced Spoonbills had been ringed. There were 58 birds sighted in wintering site during the winter from 2011 to 2012. 23 out of 58 birds returned to Korea after the winter, including K82 and K90 which had not been seen in the wintering site. That means there were a total of 60 ringed Black-faced Spoonbills had been seen within 1 year,which is about 44.8% of the total number. In 2011 summer, there were 41 chicks of Black-faced Spoonbill had been ringed. 29 of 41 ringed chicks had been seen in the wintering sites during the coming winter. There were at least 70% ringed juveniles accessed to their wintering site successfully in their first time migration. In fact, ringing is important for monitoring and conservation work of Black-faced Spoonbill. We would like to give thanks to those submitted their sighting records of ringed Black-faced Spoonbill. Please continue to support the conservation work for Black-faced Spoonbill.
If you have sighting record of Black-faced Spoonbill, welcome to submit to us by Online BFS system: http://bfs.hkbws.org.hk/. Thank you very much.